Wood Report: Colorado, New Mexico and Oregon Could Be Separated By One Point?!

It’s been a whirling of a cross country season thus far just like the men’s side. I discussed the women’s race at the NCAA Cross Country National Championships in my column last week and I expect it to be a super close battle for the No. 1 sport.

For more information regarding, the process of how I come to decide these ratings, please check out last month’s introductory post. Below you’ll see my rankings for each of the 31 teams competing at nationals. These are the 31 teams that will compete at nationals. It’s not necessarily the best 31 teams in the country. Due to injuries or shortcomings at certain meets, sometimes we see cases of teams that are very good but don’t make it to the big dance. It happens.

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Here are the official Wood Report rankings after Pre-Nats and Wisconsin:

Place

Team

Points

1

Colorado

139

2

New Mexico

139

3

Oregon

140

4

San Francisco

195

5

Michigan

239

6

Arkansas

289

7

North Carolina State

308

8

Providence

314

9

Penn State

344

10

Stanford

345

11

Villanova

362

12

Utah State

393

13

Boise State

405

14

Washington

410

15

Wisconsin

418

16

Furman

440

17

Michigan State

463

18

Georgia

467

19

Eastern Michigan

475

20

Minnesota

477

21

Indiana

484

22

Iowa State

504

23

Georgetown

527

24

Utah

562

25

Ole Miss

569

26

California

588

27

Ohio State

660

28

Columbia

662

29

Air Force

685

30

Baylor

750

Real quick, just some thoughts on the race:

That’s right teams within 1 POINT??? Wow. This one is going to be so epic. Last year’s team race was practically a photo finish and who knows if that could be the case again but with one more team in the picture.